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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN AND VINCENNES PORCELAIN CENTREPIECE

Lot 34
01.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 34 | A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN AND VINCENNES PORCELAIN CENTREPIECE
Estimate value
£ 80 000 – 120 000
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN AND VINCENNES PORCELAIN CENTREPIECE
CIRCA 1745-49, THE PORCELAIN MID-18TH CENTURY
The pierced rockwork and rocaille-moulded ormolu base mounted with seven Meissen putti, emblematic of the Arts and Sciences, below a pierced circular Meissen basket issuing gilt-metal leafy branches mounted with porcelain garden flowers forming an arrangement; the ormolu base struck with the 'C' Couronné Poinçon, a few flowers possibly replaced in the 19th century
21 ¾ in. (52.7 cm.) high, overall




Provenance

Almost certainly Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764) at the Hôtel Pompadour, Paris, where listed in the 1764 inventory in a first-floor cupboard for safe keeping.
Italian collection; sold Christie's, London, 23 May 2018, lot 210.



Literature

J. Cordey, Inventaire des Biens de Madame de Pompadour, Paris, 1939, p. 46, no. 481.
R. Savill, Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres Porcelain, Unicorn Publishing Group, 2021, vol. 1; fig. 6.3.
Applied technique:Ormolu, Pottery
Medium:Ceramic, Gold, Porcelain
Art style:Rococo
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Germany, Europe
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps
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